Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, we were all members of hunter-gatherer tribes. The desire to brave the competition in a quest to attain a desired object of prey is as old as humankind itself. But Primitive People had it easier. As civilization dawned there were no papers to write, no problem sets to do, tasks that make it difficult to set aside time to flex those ancient hunter-gatherer muscles...
PLAN ONE: The quest for a Jest...
...failure of the deal stirred speculation over the future of the much touted electronic superhighway, which is expected to bring into U.S. homes everything from video games, movies and news on demand to vast video shopping malls. The quest to build this highway has become the great preoccupation of the 1990s, and thus the TCI-Bell Atlantic breakup had a global resonance. The two companies combined would have been the single biggest highway builder, expecting to spend as much as $20 billion over five years toward the construction of an interactive system for American homes...
...fight was a quintessential '90s struggle that reflected the merger mania sweeping the communications industry and the quest for films, TV shows and other programming to run on the much anticipated electronic superhighway. Companies now feel compelled to bulk up to colossal size to compete with giants like Time Warner or huge telephone-cable-TV combines like the proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications...
...There has been a quest for an identity among Cuban-Americans," Manuel F. Cachan '96 said. "We are culturally distinct form other Hispanic groups, and we have particular political concerns, such as democracy for Cuba, which unites...